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Forests, Volume 11, Issue 10

October 2020 - 97 articles

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Cover Story: Concern about our changing climate is focusing attention on how silvicultural treatments can be used to regenerate or restore forested landscapes. For many forest ecosystems, fire is a primary disturbance agent that significantly drives species diversity and other ecosystem functions, especially nutrient dynamics. In this study, we leveraged a 30-year-old forest management-driven experiment that incorporated harvesting and prescribed fire, further affected by wildfire, to explore the recovery of woody species composition, regeneration of charismatic forest tree species Larix occidentalis, and vegetation and soil carbon and nitrogen pools. Our results help to inform land managers of the repercussions of forest management techniques. View this paper

Articles (97)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,364 Views
15 Pages

Leaf and Stem Traits are Linked to Liana Growth Rate in a Subtropical Cloud Forest

  • Xiao-Long Bai,
  • Yun-Bing Zhang,
  • Qi Liu,
  • Yang-Si-Ding Wang,
  • Da Yang and
  • Jiao-Lin Zhang

21 October 2020

There is accumulating evidence that the abundance and biomass of lianas are increasing with global climate change in the Neotropics. However, our knowledge of growth–trait relationships among lianas is surprisingly rare. Here, we monitored the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,121 Views
12 Pages

The Effect of Acetylation on Iron Uptake and Diffusion in Water Saturated Wood Cell Walls and Implications for Decay

  • Samuel L Zelinka,
  • Carl J. Houtman,
  • Kolby Hirth,
  • Steven Lacher,
  • Linda Lorenz,
  • Emil Engelund Thybring and
  • Christopher G. Hunt

21 October 2020

Acetylation is widely used as a wood modification process that protects wood from fungal decay. The mechanisms by which acetylation protects wood are not fully understood. With these experiments, we expand upon the literature and test whether previou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,783 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2020

We discovered unique Douglas-fir open woodlands in the Umatilla National Forest using historical surveys. Historical ponderosa pine forests of the western United States are transitioning to denser forests comprised of a greater proportion of fire-sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,272 Views
23 Pages

The Structure and Composition of Puerto Rico’s Urban Mangroves

  • Benjamin L. Branoff and
  • Sebastián Martinuzzi

21 October 2020

This study characterizes the structure and composition of mangrove forests across urban gradients in Puerto Rico. It then uses a suite of hydrologic, water chemistry, and land cover variables to test for the relative importance of urban intensity alo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
6,399 Views
29 Pages

21 October 2020

Catalpa bungei C.A.Mey. is a common ornamental timber species. Its survival and growth are greatly affected by water scarcity in arid and semi-arid areas of Northwest China. Evidence suggests arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) may improve plant drou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,704 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2020

Mediterranean mountain regions have undergone several landscape changes since the end of the 19th century due to progressive depopulation and the abandonment of cattle rearing, forestry, charcoal production and agricultural activity. Such activity fa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,619 Views
20 Pages

Monuments Unveiled: Genetic Characterization of Large Old Chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) Trees Using Comparative Nuclear and Chloroplast DNA Analysis

  • Claudia Mattioni,
  • Liliana Ranzino,
  • Marcello Cherubini,
  • Luca Leonardi,
  • Tommaso La Mantia,
  • Simone Castellana,
  • Fiorella Villani and
  • Marco Cosimo Simeone

21 October 2020

Large old trees are extraordinary organisms. They not only represent a historical, landscape and environmental heritage of inestimable value, but they also witness a long history of environmental changes and human interventions, and constitute an as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,924 Views
20 Pages

Long- and Short-Term Inorganic Nitrogen Runoff from a Karst Catchment in Austria

  • Thomas Dirnböck,
  • Heike Brielmann,
  • Ika Djukic,
  • Sarah Geiger,
  • Andreas Hartmann,
  • Franko Humer,
  • Johannes Kobler,
  • Martin Kralik,
  • Yan Liu and
  • Michael Mirtl
  • + 1 author

20 October 2020

Excess nitrogen (N) deposition and gaseous N emissions from industrial, domestic, and agricultural sources have led to increased nitrate leaching, the loss of biological diversity, and has affected carbon (C) sequestration in forest ecosystems. Nitra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,146 Views
20 Pages

Stocks of Carbon in Logs and Timber Products from Forest Management in the Southwestern Amazon

  • Flora Magdaline Benitez Romero,
  • Laércio Antônio Gonçalves Jacovine,
  • Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro,
  • José Ambrosio Ferreira Neto,
  • Lucas Ferrante,
  • Samuel José Silva Soares da Rocha,
  • Carlos Moreira Miquelino Eleto Torres,
  • Vicente Toledo Machado de Morais Junior,
  • Ricardo de Oliveira Gaspar and
  • Santiago Ivan Sagredo Velasquez
  • + 3 authors

20 October 2020

Amazon forest management plans have a variety of effects on carbon emissions, both positive and negative. All of these effects need to be quantified to assess the role of this land use in climate change. Here, we contribute to this effort by evaluati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,991 Views
22 Pages

Analysis of Significant Factors Influencing the Amount of Collected Forest Berries in the Czech Republic

  • Marcel Riedl,
  • Vilém Jarský,
  • Daniel Zahradník,
  • Petra Palátová,
  • Roman Dudík,
  • Jitka Meňházová and
  • Luděk Šišák

20 October 2020

Bilberries (Vaccinium myrtillus L.), raspberries (Rubus idaeus L.), blackberries (Rubus fruticosus L.) and cowberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) are the most important forest berries collected in the Czech Republic (CZ). The average annual value of t...

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